TinCaps fall to Dayton, 4-2, in rain-delayed game
The TinCaps three-game winning streak came to an end in a 4-3 loss to the Dayton Dragons that featured a rain delay in a key moment in the eighth inning at Parkview Field.
How it Happened
The game-turning play happened on the first pitch of the seventh inning. With Felix Minjarez on the mound and the game even at 1, Dayton s Quin Cotton swung at the first pitch and flew deep to center. TinCaps center-fielder Reinaldo Ilarraza seemed to lose the ball in the lights, looking up at the sky with his palms upraised trying to find it. The ball eventually landed 25 feet behind his head, bouncing on the warning track. Cotton raced all the way around to third for a lead-off triple.
TinCaps winning streak ends in odd fashion
It s not often a player who goes 1 for 2 with a double, two walks and three stolen bases could be said to have had a rough night, but that s what happened to TinCaps center-fielder Reinaldo Ilarraza tonight.
Ilarraza was involved in two of the biggest plays of the game and neither of them went Fort Wayne s way in a 4-3 loss to the Dayton Dragons at Parkview Field that snapped a three-game winning streak and sent the TinCaps sliding back into fifth place in the High-A Central East Division.
Ilarraza s first moment in the spotlight came in the top of the seventh. With the game tied at 1, the first pitch of the inning was sent deep to center off the bat of Quin Cotton. Ilarraza seemed to lose the ball in the lights, standing almost still in center, looking at the sky for the ball but unable to locate it before it landed 25 feet behind him on the warning track as Cotton raced to third with a triple. One pitch later, a sacrifice fly gave the D
TinCaps lose to Lake County, 7-6, despite comeback
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
The TinCaps dropped their seventh straight game despite a furious comeback in the late innings, falling 7-6 to the Lake County Captains at Parkview Field tonight and dropping a season-high nine games below .500.
How it Happened
The TinCaps trailed by as many as seven in the early innings, but rallied late and sent the tying run to the plate with one out after back-to-back walks in the eighth inning. Unfortunately for Fort Wayne, Kelvin Alarcon and Jawuan Harris struck out to end the threat.
Fort Wayne got it going again in the ninth, however. Jonny Homza got the uprising going with an eight-pitch at bat that ended in a slow bouncer to third that Victor Nova couldn t handle, giving Homza a chance to reach. Chris Givin followed with a bloop single off the very end of his bat that barely reached the outfield grass, putting two on. That brought the tying run to the plate in the form of Agustin Ruiz
Pregame: TinCaps (23-27) vs. Great Lakes (27-24)
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
The TinCaps let a winnable game get away Thursday night, when they dropped a 6-3 contest in 10 innings to the Great Lakes Loons, Fort Wayne s second loss in a row after an 11-inning victory in the series-opener. Two of the three games in this series have been hotly-contested and in Thursday s especially, it was clear both teams wanted a win badly. It was the Loons that emerged with the victory and the TinCaps will be looking for answers after going a combined 2 for 23 with runners in scoring position in the last two games.
TinCaps fall to Great Lakes, 10-9, after Contreras ejection
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
The TinCaps let a late-inning lead get away for the second straight night and dropped their third in a row, 10-9 to the Great Lakes Loons at Parkview Field.
How it Happened
Great Lakes trailed 9-6 entering the seventh and had just watched Fort Wayne send nine hitters to the plate in the bottom of the sixth. The Loons decided to do the TinCaps one better and gave 10 hitters a chance to bat in the inning. The trouble started with one out, when Fort Wayne first baseman Seamus Curran bobbled a ground ball and then threw it away, putting a runner on second. After starting the inning with a strikeout, reliever Mason Feole was unable to work around the walk, walking two and giving up a single within the the next three batters before being pulled.